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The environment and fault lines went crazy, due to unusual solar flair and sunspot activity, for 14 months from January 1967 to March 1968. It was a major event as shown in the historic list of weather disasters and list of geological disasters which brought much chaos, damage, death and disruption. The weather and geological situation was back to normal after the disaster season was over.

Due to the global crisis, many countries economically declined, gained huge amounts of debt and had their currencies dropped dramatically in value. As both financial decline and refugees occurred at the same time, most nations became unstable. In response, many countries had their social services budgets sharply lowered, schools closed, police enlarged and had taxes noticeably increased, angering the population.

The various military juntas, provisional civilian governments and ruling business cabals soon declared martial law and sent in soldiers to suppressed the angry mobs, panicked refugees, food riots, divisive protests and selfish looters, regardless of whether that nation allowed the rule of law and free speech or not.

Over the next 15 years, national and local authorities take control of most of what is left. Some nations fell, civil wars hit some, several coups and rebellions occurred across Latin America, some nations' provinces became independent and some nations merged or fell apart. Several old wars like Vietnam and Biafra continue, but at a slower pace without foreign intervention after early 1968.

Communism is near to collapse in East Germany and the ex-soviet states of Moscovoy, Central Ukraine, Penza Republic, Krasnodar Republic and Urals Republic. Communism was also dumped by some. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tatarstan-Bashkiria, Poland, Czech Republic, Republic of Volhynia-Galicia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia have dumped communism. North Korea and Romania are getting even more communist than before!

Deseret is now dominated by Mormon clergerie. Right-wing generals rule large parts of South America and Ba'athism is very popular in Syria. Southern Italy is a mobsters' paradise.

None is to be used beyond a simple "table of war factors", so use your common sense and reed the table in the link! Always say how many troops, tanks, aircraft, ships, etc, that you use so as to give the mods a good grasp of the situation so they can judge the outcome fairly.

Nukes, chemical weapons and bio weapons are a major force on the battle field. If you want to use them, you MUST NOT GO CRAZY, IT'S NOT DD1983!

Nuclear war is limited by a doomsday clause- Maximum total yield per player each year is 500 KT (0.5 MT) and a total of 50,000 KT (50 MT) by all players added together in any one round.

Population limits military size. The OTL Russian army is larger than the entire population of Luxembourg for an obvious reason- there are many more OTL Russians than Luxembourgers.

Don't go crazy since over-expatiation causes trouble.

Stay realistic. No daft stuff like OTL Monaco conquering the world in a year or teenage ninger turtles!

The mod(s) decided the outcome from their wisdom, but you can complain if you think it is biased.

Light grey zones like northern Alaska have only primitive tribesmen in them, which you can annex, but don't go to fast for logistical reasons.

No territory requests can be made in the dark gray. These represent radioactive/uninhabitable areas and will mostly stay like it until 1992. You can however reserve some territory for when the dark gray zone clears out.